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 This year’s winter-spring edition of The Villager examines some of the issues that affect us all, some trends and some of the things people do to pass their time.
We start off with an investigation of a decadent obsession – chocolate, and how its production and our choices affect the cocoa farmers. Buyer beware: are those products we consume as good to the planet as they say they are?
In this issue we take a look at “greenwashing,” a disturbing trend in eco-friendly marketing.
Also, allergies are a bummer this time of year, and The Villager checks out some natural alternatives to the usual treatments.
Then we unwind with a trip around the disc golf course (perhaps without even sneezing…). We’ll catch up with a Swedish radio junkie whose idea of fun is sitting in a small cabin in the middle of a frozen land and tuning in to signals from all over the world. We will find out more about this hobby called DX-ing.
Music is a big part of this issue, as we speak with an organizer of Victoria house concerts, we’ll have a conversation with a founder of a new record label based in Fernwood and a music school that holds its classes inside a barn.
All this and more can be found inside the latest issue of The Villager.
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Fall 2007 (PDF 640Kb)
Eating local, living in houses made from natural materials and a spotlight on how Victoria West is working together to reinvent its reputation and maintain a green neighbourhood.
Also, Sara Marreiros on Fado, and Canadian Roots musician Cara Luft
Summer
2007 (PDF 690Kb)
People making positive changes. Anne-Marie Légaré chimpanzee experience in Cameroon, a website dedicated to financing entrepreneurial ideas in developing countries, and bringing radio email to remote villages in Africa
Winter/Spring
2007 (PDF 640Kb)
Ancient tomatoes being grown on Vancouver Island, producing wool on Salt Spring
Island, ride a camel with Bedouin on the Sinai,
Spring, paper transforms a small village in Africa and get an insider’s
perspective on an open mic night in Victoria.
Fall
2006 (PDF 905k)
A Bee Whisperer, the art of preserving food, moving from ‘me’ to ‘we’ and
a Camosun intern’s experiences in India.
Also Cree singer/songwriter Art Napoleon and
an Egyptian-Canadian artist who photos of the war in Iraq have
connected with many people.
Summer
2006 (PDF 663k)
Sleep in a van in Victoria, experience one man’s beautiful
bonsai and go back to school for free. Also record producer Joby
Baker and transplanted Brazilian musician Celso Machado.
Winter/Spring
2006 (885k)
A community radio station in New Orleans copes after Katrina,
pinhole photography and an interview with world music promoter
Josh Keller.
Fall
2005 (637k)
Victoria’s lost creeks and streams, Salt Spring organic
orchard owner Harry Burton, growing up Hare Krisna and Comox
dobro musician Doug Cox.
Summer
2005 pt 1 (562k) & pt
2 (495k)
Seeds of Diversity Canada, Green roofs, Doctor Carlos Pazos, & Martyn
Joseph
Winter
2005 part 1 (439k) and part
2 (664k)
Biodiesel vehicles, holistic child-birth, Hawaiian music, David
Suzucki's new book and Indo-Jazz band Autorickshaw
Fall
2004 (750k)
Calexico, on stage at the Bluebird and the Pig War of the Pacific
Northwest.
Summer 2004 (541k)
Angelique Kidjo, Banjo Madness, the power of methane and WWOOF'ing.
Winter 2004
part 1 (279k) and part
2 (547k)
An interview with Cesaria Evora,
a special bread recipe from Natalie MacMaster's mom (and sheet
music from Natalie to go with it), and everything you ever wanted
to know about worms.
Fall
2003 part 1 (636k) and part
2 (413k)
Stories from the front lines of
the worst forest fire season in British Columbia history, urban
greenways, solar energy, and an interview with World artist Kiran
Ahluwalia.
Summer
2003 part 1 (652k)
and part 2 (675k)
Cortez Island painter June Cameron, the First Nations archives
of the Royal BC Museum, and James Keelaghan
Winter
2003 part 1 (571k)
and part 2 (548k)
Houses made of dirt, a green fuel made from deep fat fryer oil,
and Garnet Rogers.
Fall
2002 (567kb)
Stephen Fearing, City Green
Spring/Summer
2002 (948kb)
Summer 2002 festival guide
Fall/Winter
2001/02 (452kb)
Billy Bragg and Trilok Gurtu
Spring/Summer
2001 (264kb)
Rootsfest 2001, The Bill Hilly Band
Fall/Winter
2000 (240kb)
Stacey Earle and Cubanismo |
